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The Terministic Screen Timothy A. Brusseau Jr. Shalhope thus demonstrates how theThe Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, editor David Blakesley presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric's role in such popular films as The Fifth Element, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Usual Suspects, Deliverance, The English Patient, Pulp Fiction,